.sunlorrie: COVID-19 exposed the folly of our approach to climate change
Not even the massive global recession caused by the pandemic in 2020 came close to doing that.Think about that. Recall the massive downturn in global economic activity at the start of the pandemic in 2020, when we knew little about the new coronavirus and vaccines were not available.
For 2021, a year of gradual economic recovery from the pandemic, at least before the Omicron variant hit late in the year, global emissions rose by 4.9% to 36.4 billion tonnes. The only other time in the modern era that global greenhouse gas emissions dropped dramatically on a year-over-year basis occurred during the 2008-09 global recession, which began with the subprime mortgage derivative scandal in the U.S. that led to a global credit freeze.
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